FREMONT, CA, February
20, 2008 - Optoplex Corporation, a leading supplier of
innovative fiber-optic components for the next-generation
communication systems, announces that its DQPSK demodulator
and QPSK mixer, both designed for 100-Gb/s systems, have
successfully completed sample evaluations by development
groups at several major telecom systems providers.
While 40-Gb/s system market is slowly taking off, major
network operators are already evaluating and making plans
for 100-Gb/s optical transmission equipment, and anticipating
roll-out in 2010. Light Reading is seeing a push to 100-Gb/s
as service providers build out capacity to handle the
growing demands for more services, such as video and enterprise-class
services.
Optoplex’s engineering team has already started working
with its key customers in providing the state-of-the-art
DQPSK demodulators and QPSK mixers. Depending on the architecture,
either the purely phase-based DQPSK scheme or the polarization-
and phase-diversified QPSK scheme is one of the leading
candidates of modulation format to be adapted by 100G
systems. Both devices are free-space optics- based phased
interferometers and are extension of Optoplex’s DPSK
demodulator platform. These components are athermal, compact
in size and designed for manufacturability.
During next week’s Optical Fiber Communication Conference
and Exposition (OFC) in San Diego, CA, Optoplex (Booth#
2642) welcomes designers of optical transport systems
and subsystems to view its innovative product portfolio,
and discuss their needs in making their choices of 100-Gb/s
components.
Optoplex provides customized solutions
to telecom network equipment and testing instrument providers
for wavelength routing and signal conditioning. Current
product families include DPSK
demodulator/Delay line interferometer (DLI), DQPSK
demodulator, 90-degree
optical hybrid, Optical
interleaver, Tunable
optical filter / Reconfigurable
optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM), Optical
performance monitor (OPM) / Optical
channel monitor (OCM).
